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Prof. Wieslaw Krolikowski

Position: Professor
Qualification: MS in Physics (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, 1981); PhD in Physics (Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 1988); DSc (habilitation) in Physics from Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, 2001.
Address: Laser Physics Centre, RSPhysSE, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT0200 Australia
Office: Room J3-23, John Carver Building, 58C
Phone: +61 2 6125 3752
Fax: +61 2 6125 0029
Email: wzk111@rsphysse.anu.edu.au

Research Interests and Expertise:

  • Theoretical and experimental nonlinear optics in photorefractive crystals - multiple-wave interaction, phase-conjugation, etc.
  • Optical solitons - solitons in non Kerr media, soliton effects in discrete nonlinear systems (waveguide arrays), photorefractive solitons.
  • Nonlinear dynamics.
  • Fiber and integrated optics.
  • Holography.
  • Optical signal processing.

Current Projects and Collaborations:

Research area link: Photonics Crystals, Optical-Induced Lattices and Solitons ;

Selected Publications:

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Buccoliero, D., Desyatnikov, A. S., Krolikowski, W. and Kivshar, Y. S. (2007). Laguerre and Hermite soliton clusters in nonlocal nonlinear media. Physical Review Letters 98(5): 4.

Buccoliero, D., Lopez-Aguayo, S., Skupin, S., Desyatnikov, A. S., Bang, O., Krolikowski, W. and Kivshar, Y. S. (2007). Spiraling solitons and multipole localized modes in nonlocal nonlinear media. Physica B-Condensed Matter 394(2): 351-356.

Fischer, R., Neshev, D. N., Saltiel, S. M., Sukhorukov, A. A., Krolikowski, W. and Kivshar, Y. S. (2007). Monitoring ultrashort pulses by transverse frequency doubling of counterpropagating pulses in random media. Applied Physics Letters 91(3): 3.

Garanovich, I. L., Szameit, A., Sukhorukov, A. A., Pertsch, T., Krolikowski, W., Nolte, S., Neshev, D., Tuennermann, A. and Kivshar, Y. S. (2007). Diffraction control in periodically curved two-dimensional waveguide arrays. Optics Express 15(15): 9737-9747.

Koke, S., Trager, D., Jander, P., Chen, M., Neshev, D. N., Krolikowski, W., Kivshar, Y. S. and Denz, C. (2007). Stabilization of counterpropagating solitons by photonic lattices. Optics Express 15(10): 6279-6292.

Minovich, A., Neshev, D. N., Dreischuh, A., Krolikowski, W. and Kivshar, Y. S. (2007). Experimental reconstruction of nonlocal response of thermal nonlinear optical media. Optics Letters 32(12): 1599-1601.

Rosberg, C. R., Neshev, D. N., Sukhorukov, A. A., Krolikowski, W. and Kivshar, Y. S. (2007). Observation of nonlinear self-trapping in triangular photonic lattices. Optics Letters 32(4): 397-399.

Saltiel, S., Krolikowski, W., Neshev, D. and Kivshar, Y. S. (2007). Generation of Bessel beams by parametric frequency doubling in annular nonlinear periodic structures. Optics Express 15(7): 4132-4138.

Wyller, J., Krolikowski, W. Z., Bang, O., Petersen, D. E. and Rasmussen, J. J. (2007). Modulational instability in the nonlocal chi((2))-model. Physica D-Nonlinear Phenomena 227(1): 8-25.

Assanto, G., Shalaev, V. M. and Krolikowski, W. (2006). Introduction to the issue on nonlinear optics. Ieee Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 12(3): 337-338.

Bezuhanov, K., Dreischuh, A., Paulus, G. G., Schatzel, M. G., Walther, H., Neshev, D., Krolikowski, W. and Kivshar, Y. (2006). Spatial phase dislocations in femtosecond laser pulses. Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics 23(1): 26-35.

Desyatnikov, A. S., Sagemerten, N., Fischer, R., Terhalle, B., Trager, D., Neshev, D. N., Dreischuh, A., Denz, C., Krolikowski, W. and Kivshar, Y. S. (2006). Two-dimensional self-trapped nonlinear photonic lattices. Optics Express 14(7): 2851-2863.

Dreischuh, A., Neshev, D. N., Petersen, D. E., Bang, O. and Krolikowski, W. (2006). Observation of attraction between dark solitons. Physical Review Letters 96(4): 4.

Fischer, R., Neshev, D. N., Krolikowski, W., Kivshar, Y. S., Iturbe-Castillo, D., Chavez-Cerda, S., Meneghetti, M. R., Caetano, D. P. and Hickman, J. M. (2006). Oblique interaction of spatial dark-soliton stripes in nonlocal media. Optics Letters 31(20): 3010-3012.

Fischer, R., Neshev, D. N., Lopez-Aguayo, S., Desyatnikov, A. S., Sukhorukov, A. A., Krolikowski, W. and Kivshar, Y. S. (2006). Observation of light localization in modulated Bessel optical lattices. Optics Express 14(7): 2825-2830.

Fischer, R., Saltiel, S. M., Neshev, D. N., Krolikowski, W. and Kivshar, Y. S. (2006). Broadband femtosecond frequency doubling in random media. Applied Physics Letters 89(19): 3.

Fischer, R., Trager, D., Neshev, D. N., Sukhorukov, A. A., Krolikowski, W., Denz, C. and Kivshar, Y. S. (2006). Reduced-symmetry two-dimensional solitons in photonic lattices. Physical Review Letters 96(2): 4.

Larsen, P. V., Sorensen, M. P., Bang, O., Krolikowski, W. Z. and Trillo, S. (2006). Nonlocal description of X waves in quadratic nonlinear materials. Physical Review E 73(3): 10.

Lopez-Aguayo, S., Desyatnikov, A. S., Kivshar, Y. S., Skupin, S., Krolikowski, W. and Bang, O. (2006). Stable rotating dipole solitons in nonlocal optical media. Optics Letters 31(8): 1100-1102.

Matuszewski, M., Krolikowski, W., Trippenbach, M. and Kivshar, Y. S. (2006). Simple and efficient generation of gap solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates. Physical Review A 73(6): 7.

Matuszewski, M., Rosberg, C. R., Neshev, D. N., Sukhorukov, A. A., Mitchell, A., Trippenbach, M., Austin, M. W., Krolikowski, W. and Kivshar, Y. S. (2006). Crossover from self-defocusing to discrete trapping in nonlinear waveguide arrays. Optics Express 14(1): 254-259.

Rosberg, C. R., Garanovich, I. L., Sukhorukov, A. A., Neshev, D. N., Krolikowski, W. and Kivshar, Y. S. (2006). Demonstration of all-optical beam steering in modulated photonic lattices. Optics Letters 31(10): 1498-1500.

Rosberg, C. R., Neshev, D. N., Krolikowski, W., Mitchell, A., Vicencio, R. A., Molina, M. I. and Kivshar, Y. S. (2006). Observation of surface gap solitons in semi-infinite waveguide arrays. Physical Review Letters 97(8): 4.

Skupin, S., Bang, O., Edmundson, D. and Krolikowski, W. (2006). Stability of two-dimensional spatial solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media. Physical Review E 73(6): 8.

Sukhorukov, A. A., Neshev, D. N., Dreischuh, A., Fischer, R., Ha, S., Krolikowski, W., Bolger, J., Mitchell, A., Eggleton, B. J. and Kivshar, Y. S. (2006). Polychromatic nonlinear surface modes generated by supercontinuum light. Optics Express 14(23): 11265-11270.

Trager, D., Fischer, R., Neshev, D. N., Sukhorukov, A. A., Denz, C., Krolikowski, W. and Kivshar, Y. S. (2006). Nonlinear Bloch modes in two-dimensional photonic lattices. Optics Express 14(5): 1913-1923.

Trompeter, H., Krolikowski, W., Neshev, D. N., Desyatnikov, A. S., Sukhorukov, A. A., Kivshar, Y. S., Pertsch, T., Peschel, U. and Lederer, F. (2006). Bloch oscillations and Zener tunneling in two-dimensional photonic lattices. Physical Review Letters 96(5): 4.

Volyar, A., Shvedov, V., Fadeyeva, T., Desyatnikov, A. S., Neshev, D. N., Krolikowski, W. and Kivshar, Y. S. (2006). Generation of single-charge optical vortices with an uniaxial crystal. Optics Express 14(9): 3724-3729.

Briedis, D., Petersen, D. E., Edmundson, D., Krolikowski, W. and Bang, O. (2005). Ring vortex solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media. Optics Express 13(2): 435-443.

Hanna, B., Krolikowski, W., Neshev, D., Sukhorukov, A. A., Ostrovskaya, E. A. and Kivshar, Y. S. (2005). Spatial solitons in photorefractive lattices. Opto-Electronics Review 13(2): 85-91.

Rasmussen, P. D., Bang, O. and Krolikowski, W. (2005). Theory of nonlocal soliton interaction in nematic liquid crystals. Physical Review E 72(6): 7.

Rosberg, C. R., Hanna, B., Neshev, D. N., Sukhorukov, A. A., Krolikowski, W. and Kivshar, Y. S. (2005). Discrete interband mutual focusing in nonlinear photonic lattices. Optics Express 13(14): 5369-5376.

Shvedov, V., Krolikowski, W., Volyar, A., Neshev, D. N., Desyatnikov, A. S. and Kivshar, Y. S. (2005). Focusing and correlation properties of white-light optical vortices. Optics Express 13(19): 7393-7398.

Krolikowski, W., Bang, O., Nikolov, N. I., Neshev, D., Wyller, J., Rasmussen, J. J. and Edmundson, D. (2004). Modulational instability, solitons and beam propagation in spatially nonlocal nonlinear media. Journal of Optics B-Quantum and Semiclassical Optics 6(5): S288-S294.

Krolikowski, W., Bang, O. and Wyller, J. (2004). Nonlocal incoherent solitons. Physical Review E 70(3): 5.

Lim, O. K., Boland, B., Saffman, M. and Krolikowski, W. (2004). Creation, doubling and splitting of vortices in intracavity second harmonic generation. Journal of Optics a-Pure and Applied Optics 6(5): 486-489.

Neshev, D., Sukhorukov, A. A., Kivshar, Y. S. and Krolikowski, W. (2004). Observation of transverse instabilities in optically induced lattices. Optics Letters 29(3): 259-261.

Saffman, M., McCarthy, G. and Krolikowski, W. (2004). Two-dimensional modulational instability in photorefractive media. Journal of Optics B-Quantum and Semiclassical Optics 6(5): S397-S403.

Sukhorukov, A. A., Neshev, D., Krolikowski, W. and Kivshar, Y. S. (2004). Nonlinear Bloch-wave interaction and Bragg scattering in optically induced lattices. Physical Review Letters 92(9): 4.

Krolikowski, W., Bang, O., Wyller, J. and Rasmussen, J. J. (2003). Optical beams in nonlocal nonlinear media. Acta Physica Polonica A 103(2-3): 133-147.

Krolikowski, W., McCarthy, G., Kivshar, Y. S., Weilnau, C., Denz, C., Garcia-Ripoll, J. J. and Perez-Garcia, V. M. (2003). Scattering of dipole-mode vector solitons: Theory and experiment. Physical Review E 68(1): 8.

McCarthy, G., Breuninger, T., Schroder, J., Denz, C., Neshev, D. and Krolikowski, W. (2003). Mutual spatial-soliton trapping in photofractive media: experiment versus theory. Applied Physics B-Lasers and Optics 77(4): 421-426.

Neshev, D., Ostrovskaya, E., Kivshar, Y. and Krolikowski, W. (2003). Spatial solitons in optically induced gratings. Optics Letters 28(9): 710-712.

Neshev, D., Sukhorukov, A. A., Hanna, B., Krolikowski, W. and Kivshar, Y. S. (2004). Controlled generation and steering of spatial gap solitons. Physical Review Letters 93(8): 4.

Nikolov, N. I., Neshev, D., Bang, O. and Krolikowski, W. Z. (2003). Quadratic solitons as nonlocal solitons. Physical Review E 68(3): 5.

Tomljenovic-Hanic, S. and Krolikowski, W. (2003). New design for a variable optical attenuator based on a bent channel waveguide. Applied Physics B-Lasers and Optics 77(1): 19-23.

Bang, O., Krolikowski, W., Wyller, J. and Rasmussen, J. J. (2002). Collapse arrest and soliton stabilization in nonlocal nonlinear media. Physical Review E 66(4): 5.

Calvo, G. F., Agullo-Lopez, F., Carrascosa, M., Belic, M. R. and Krolikowski, W. (2002). Locality vs. nonlocality of (2+1)-dimensional light-induced space-charge field in photorefractive crystals. Europhysics Letters 60(6): 847-853.

Desyatnikov, A. S., Neshev, D., Ostrovskaya, E. A., Kivshar, Y. S., McCarthy, G., Krolikowski, W. and Luther-Davies, B. (2002). Multipole composite spatial solitons: theory and experiment. Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics 19(3): 586-595.

Motzek, K., Kaiser, F., Weilnau, C., Denz, C., McCarthy, G., Krolikowski, W., Desyatnikov, A. and Kivshar, Y. S. (2002). Multi-component vector solitons in photorefractive crystals. Optics Communications 209(4-6): 501-506.

Wyller, J., Krolikowski, W., Bang, O. and Rasmussen, J. J. (2002). Generic features of modulational instability in nonlocal Kerr media. Physical Review E 66(6): 13.

Desyatnikov, A. S., Neshev, D., Ostrovskaya, E. A., Kivshar, Y. S., Krolikowski, W., Luther-Davies, B., Garcia-Ripoll, J. J. and Perez-Garcia, V. M. (2001). Multipole spatial vector solitons. Optics Letters 26(7): 435-437.

Krolikowski, W. (2001). Multi-component spatial optical solitons in photorefractive medium. Acta Physica Polonica A 99(1): 67-76.

Krolikowski, W. and Bang, O. (2001). Solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media: Exact solutions. Physical Review E 6302(1): 6.

Krolikowski, W., Bang, O., Rasmussen, J. J. and Wyller, J. (2001). Modulational instability in nonlocal nonlinear Kerr media. Physical Review E 6401(1): 8.

Krolikowski, W., Luther-Davies, B. and Kivshar, Y. (2001). Photorefractive materials and solitons. Opto-Electronics Review 9(3): 287-292.

Neshev, D., Krolikowski, W., Pelinovsky, D. E., McCarthy, G. and Kivshar, Y. S. (2001). Transverse instability of vector solitons and generation of dipole arrays. Physical Review Letters 8710(10): art. no.-103903.

Neshev, D., McCarthy, G., Krolikowski, W., Ostrovskaya, E. A., Kivshar, Y. S., Calvo, G. F. and Agullo-Lopez, F. (2001). Dipole-mode vector solitons in anisotropic nonlocal self-focusing media. Optics Letters 26(15): 1185-1187.

Weilnau, C., Krolikowski, W., Ostrovskaya, E. A., Ahles, M., Geisser, M., McCarthy, G., Denz, C., Kivshar, Y. S. and Luther-Davies, B. (2001). Composite spatial solitons in a saturable nonlinear bulk medium. Applied Physics B-Lasers and Optics 72(6): 723-727.

Berge, L., Bang, O. and Krolikowski, W. (2000). Influence of four-wave mixing and walk-off on the self-focusing of coupled waves. Physical Review Letters 84(15): 3302-3305.

Krolikowski, W., Edmundson, D. and Bang, O. (2000). Unified model for partially coherent solitons in logarithmically nonlinear media. Physical Review E 61(3): 3122-3126.

Krolikowski, W., Luther-Davies, B., McCarthy, G. and Bledowski, A. (2000). Analytical solution for photorefractive screening solitons. Physical Review E 61(2): 2010-2014.

Krolikowski, W., Ostrovskaya, E. A., Weilnau, C., Geisser, M., McCarthy, G., Kivshar, Y. S., Denz, C. and Luther-Davies, B. (2000). Observation of dipole-mode vector solitons. Physical Review Letters 85(7): 1424-1427.

Bang, O., Edmundson, D. and Krolikowski, W. (1999). Collapse of incoherent light beams in inertial bulk Kerr media. Physical Review Letters 83(26): 5479-5482.
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